another "isn't cycling.tv a load of sh*te" thread

vermooten
vermooten Posts: 2,697
edited April 2008 in Pro race
This time there's no sound. Is it just me? No can't be, iTunes and Media Player are pumping it out, so it has to be cycling.tv.

Picture's not bad though.
You just have to ride like you never have to breathe again.

Manchester Wheelers

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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Sound is fine for me :?:
  • vermooten
    vermooten Posts: 2,697
    The little volume control thing on the page has disappeared, so it's still their fault. And the fact that everything about the page tells me that it should be on but isn't.

    grrrr
    You just have to ride like you never have to breathe again.

    Manchester Wheelers
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Oh yeah I don't have that either, but I never use that anyway. I just maximise the screen and use the Media Player volume.
  • vermooten
    vermooten Posts: 2,697
    Rebooted PC, still no sound.

    Piece o' crap.
    You just have to ride like you never have to breathe again.

    Manchester Wheelers
  • moray_gub
    moray_gub Posts: 3,328
    vermooten wrote:
    Rebooted PC, still no sound.

    Piece o' crap.

    Just out of curiosity do you guys actually pay for this service or what ?


    cheers
    MG
    Gasping - but somehow still alive !
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Moray Gub wrote:
    vermooten wrote:
    Rebooted PC, still no sound.

    Piece o' crap.

    Just out of curiosity do you guys actually pay for this service or what ?


    cheers
    MG

    I do, but then I've never seemed to have half the trouble everyone else does. Yeah the site itself is a crime against web design, and I had a few troubles logging in when I wanted to watch Het Volk, but other than that it works fine. Must be lucky I guess.
  • vermooten
    vermooten Posts: 2,697
    In general, when it goes wrong then I have a terrible stressful time (see above). But in general it's worth £30 a year or whatever if, like me, you haven't got a life but like watching pro cycling.
    You just have to ride like you never have to breathe again.

    Manchester Wheelers
  • campagone
    campagone Posts: 270
    edited April 2008
    What was showing today?
  • campagone
    campagone Posts: 270
    edited April 2008
    I see Girvan is up at last
  • campagone
    campagone Posts: 270
    It worked well for me at the weekend, I find it seems to work better for me if I use Firefox, the only problem is that it plays using the windows media player and I can't view it at full screen, and the volume works better, I can actually slide it up or down :lol:
    Cycling.tv has taken a lot of stick of late, but we would be missing out on quite a bit of racing without it, granted Tour of California didn't work well at all but I blame the yanks at their end for that.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    campagone wrote:
    What was showing today?

    3 Days of De Panne.
  • claudb
    claudb Posts: 212
    I've also had lots of problems with Cycling.tv but yesterday and today was fine for the De Panne. Admittedly I only attempt to view at 400 Kbs but it is OK and much better than nothing (and watching Cav sprint 5 lengths clear of all the opposition was the icing on the cake !!).
  • jimmythecuckoo
    jimmythecuckoo Posts: 4,718
    I still cant decide whether to take the plunge and pay for it.

    My PC is painfully slow and with the alleged unreliability of the website I sense a recipe for disaster :(
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  • calvjones
    calvjones Posts: 3,850
    My subscription was up on 2nd April. They've paypal-ed the money but guess what; I'm currently unsbscribed so if its not sorted soon, no Flanders.

    Email to the 'permanently manned during races' address has gone unanswered. What a shower.
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  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,549
    calvjones wrote:
    My subscription was up on 2nd April. They've paypal-ed the money but guess what; I'm currently unsbscribed so if its not sorted soon, no Flanders.

    Email to the 'permanently manned during races' address has gone unanswered. What a shower.
    I'm still waiting, nearly a month after requesting it, for a refund to my paypal account following their sneaky automatic renewal of my subscription. They keep tell me it's on its way but nothing yet.

    What a shower.
  • claudb
    claudb Posts: 212
    I had the same problem when renewal was taken via PayPal without prior notice and then I found I was 'unsubscribed' into the bargain. Although I never got a reply, I was eventually magically 'subscribed' again after sending e-mails to -
    'player@narrowstep.com' and 'team@cycling.tv'.
    I subsequently also got notified by PayPal that the 'Automatic Renewal' in favour of Cycling.tv (or 'narrowstep') had been cancelled, so I now wonder what will happen come the next anniversary of my subscription.
    Despite all the problems in viewing that most of us have encountered, it was actually OK for all of the 3 Days of De Panne but the real test will be on Sunday for the 'Ronde'.

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